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Australian dockyard
Walsh Island Dockyard and Engineering Works
Industry
| Ship building
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Founded
| 1913
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Founder
| Government of New South Wales
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Defunct
| 1933
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Fate
| Closed
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Headquarters
| ,
Australia
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Owner
| Government of New South Wales
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The
Walsh Island Dockyard and Engineering Works
was a dockyard and engineering workshop established by the
Government of New South Wales
in 1913, at
Walsh Island
,
Newcastle
, Australia.
[1]
The foundation stone was laid on 15 June 1913 by Arthur Griffith, the Minister for Works.
[1]
The dockyard was constructed as a replacement for
Sydney
's
Cockatoo Island Dockyard
, that was taken over by the
Federal Government
in 1913.
Forty-seven vessels were constructed at the dockyard, including a 15,000-ton floating dock.
[2]
The engineering works fabricated bolts, castings and steel fabrication work. It assembled electric carriages for the
New South Wales Government Railways
as well as
trams
. The dockyard was eventually abandoned in 1933 after the great depression and was dismantled and relocated to the new
State Dockyard
at Dyke End,
Carrington
.
[3]
Ships built at Walsh Island Dockyard
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Products of engineering works
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